New Delhi, July 7 -- Prince Harry has lost his privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, after a UK High Court judge ruled that the claimants had failed to prove allegations of unlawful information gathering.

The Duke of Sussex was among a group of prominent public figures who launched legal proceedings in 2022, accusing the newspaper publisher of engaging in a range of illegal practices to obtain private information. The claimants alleged that journalists working for the titles had unlawfully accessed personal information through methods including phone hacking, tapping landline telephones and placing surveillance devices in homes and vehicles.

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